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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—A Historian’s Comparative Review

In this narrated review video, an in-depth comparison is made between Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, juxtaposed against the nearly three-millennia-old poetry of Homer. The...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—A Historian’s Comparative Review

In this narrated review video, an in-depth comparison is made between Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, juxtaposed against the nearly three-millennia-old poetry of Homer. The...

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Of the ancient ships featured in Greek myth and legend, few were as famous as a vessel called the Argo. It was a fifty-oar...

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  King Agesilaus II had an interesting and paradoxical reign in ancient Sparta. He succeeded to the throne after the death of his brother, King...
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